Bicycles are a perfectly safe form of transit as long as we respect the rules of the road. This month’s theme is meant to reinforce that and remind all of our riders that we can have a great time while remaining safe and respecting our community that we are riding through. Please remember to be safe, legal, and courteous (see How We Ride!). We share the road with other traffic. Helping cars move through smoothly makes the ride more enjoyable for everyone. Do your part to encourage good behavior! Also, please remember to turn down the volume when riding through residential areas late at night.

Information on the route and more after the drop …

BIRDs

BIRDs are our wonderful volunteers that attempt to keep everyone on our rides safe. Please be respectful of their directions and thank them for all of the effort they put into the ride. If you want to help out and make your mark on Bike Party, please join the BIRDs at the volunteer cicle prior to the start of the ride.

Ravens

Ravens are the elite group of BIRDs that make sure we leave no trace behind by cleaning up after the party at regroups. They are essential to keeping the party going and they can’t do it by themselves. When you see any of them with a trashbag collecting your trash, please thank them! They are a really cool bunch. Please bring trash bags and help us leave no trace.

How We Ride

If you follow these simple rules, Bike Party will be safe and a positive place for riders, drivers, pedestrians, and our community.

Stop at lights

Stay to the right

Pack your Trash

Roll Past Conflict

Ride Sober

Be nice

Route information

Feeder rides

Feeder rides are a great way to get to Bike Party They allow you to make great friends and get to know people who live near you. They also make it super easy to get back home as a group as most folks ride home with the group they arrived with. You save the planet and save on parking while getting a little bit more exercise. It’s all good.

This is the ride the SJ Bike Party Community has been anxiously awaiting!!!
I cannot think of a more eloquent, and socially responsible theme as this Friday’s SJ Bike Party Safety Ride.
The message is as clear as a bell my bicycling brethren.
SAFETY is a message of individual self-preservation on a bicycle when sharing road space cars.
Our safety lifeline for participating in night-time Bike Party rides is tied to: lights and helmets; RESPECT for the ride, RESPECT for your fellow rider,and RESPECT for the communities we roll through.
Please learn — if not master — the RULES OF THE ROAD clearly manifested in HOW WE RIDE.
The life you save could be your own!

Be safe and download Track Navigator, the bike party inspired Android app designed to help prevent you from getting lost. Just enter this month’s ride number (2476283) in the app, and you’re good to go. It’s free!

Sorry Guys this ride stinks…the starting point will only pick up the bad players and Santa Theresa how long and BORING! Unfortunately, no matter what the namby pamby suck on their thumbs, and ask Mommy for help folks say “We must be ALL inclusive & and have a theme” LAME! Who was the dork to come up with themes? Most likely a Gooby CAlPers teacher frump, because they are the ones to come up with themes to make my boy a girl for the day. I digress…Dorky route overall.

You need to chill the hell out. You think people come to bike party expecting it to be boring? I come to bike party personally cause it’s a great way to meet new people, no matter who comes, I know that I will meet a couple of new people. So I really hope people like you stay home. Enjoy your BORING life yourself. Don’t bring that crap to Bike Party.

And I think Bike themes exist to make bike party even more fun. It doesn’t take away the true meaning of Bike Party.

Attitude is everything. That point of view most revealing. What can you do to make the night better? If you have nothing positive to bring to the party, maybe you could stay home and play nice with yourself. At least you will not be so bored. Shake that bad attitude and come to the volunteer meetings when we choose the themes, several months at a time. You too can be part of the solution!

Ill be at the Winchester and budd Safeway at 7pm. I only wish I had a Star Trek jersey. Ill be the girl with blond pig tails and hopefully some kind of music system attached to my bike…haven’t worked out the kinks yet haha

any tips on the ride? this will be my first group ride. Im from Los Angeles and I just moved to San Jose and Im really looking forward to this ride. Ill be riding from downtown San Jose. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Bring a little bit of cash for food and drinks at the stops, be sure to have lights, follow the “how we ride”, if you’re not sure of the route then just follow the sounds of people yelling “BIKE PARRRRRTTTTYYYY”, meet lots of people and have lots of fun.

This isn’t a bike versus cars confrontational ride. We get along with other motorists. Be courteous and let cars flow through all groupings of bicycles.
Please refrain from crude, or threatening behavior towards all pedestrians, and residents of the communities we roll through.
If you can’t abide by the simple rules of the road, I suggest you kick back at home with a 12 pack, or just go to a Rage Party with your homies to get your fix on; ’cause Bike Party is no place for scofflaws.
The Bike Party Volunteers are tired of seeing their: labor of love, hard work, and sacrifice being disrespected month after month, by a small group of punks who have a terribly twisted understanding of what Bike Party is all about.
Let’s all just follow the rules, keep the peace, and have tons of fun with: the awesome crowd, the great food, the uber-cool music mixes at the greatest party on wheels in America today!!!
Let’s BIKE PARTAY BABY!!!!

Really? After ten o’clock at night and your coming through my neighborhood music BLARING, people shouting, screaming and whistling, car horns tooting excessively.

How does your right to bicycle supersede my right to sleep undisturbed??? Even if you stop any time soon I now have a THROBBING migraine which will not allow me to sleep at all.

Maybe neighborhood associations need to be prepared in advance of the next bike party with water balloons to cool down the people who obviously have no respect for the community they’re riding through.

Sorry this doesn’t build community with me. The loud music and yelling at 10:30pm just doesn’t foster a friendly sense of community. I saw bikes running red lights and making it hard for me to turn into my neighborhood, even though I slowed, put my signal and waited and waited. I have no desire to run over a bike. Even one with loud music blarring and waking up my kids. Bike Party does not leave this San Jose resident with a warm fuzzy feeling. Total bummer. I like to bike too.

It’s hard not to be angry at the few bad apples that tarnish the name of San Jose Bike party, but the planning should be better, especially when it goes late into the night. How rude for people to be yelling and screaming whole others are trying to sleep. Yes, we can’t control anyone else’s behavior but our own , but with that many people riding together, it creates this group mentality that is more aggressive and intolerant of common decency and manners. There were bikers yelling at people who were expressing their displeasure about the noise. What kind of community building is that? You as bikers, walkers, skaters are visiting my neighborhood and chose to disturb my family?
How is that building community?! Why isn’t there a contact person who can address any issues that come up? All I find is a generic email address to send any complaints. Why isn’t neighborhoods given notice about all the traffic going through? Even as a courtesy? I found this web site and the May 17th ride posted just by accident as I was furiously trying to figure out what was all the noise going on , and if someone was being attacked or assaulted. My first impression was that there was a fight. I’m sure that is not how San Jose Bike Party wants to be known for, bringing trouble to neighborhoods.

Why on earth did you route this ride through residential neighborhoods? I have been listening the the biggest group of assholes and morons ride by my bedroom window for the last hour and a half. I read your ride rules which instruct riders to keep the noise down and be respectful of those around you. I have heard nothing but blaring stereos and idiots yelling “Bike Party!” this entire time. It is currently 11:45 and they are still rolling by and blathering on like a bunch of mouth breathing imbeciles.

I’m all for sharing the road and helping bikers be safe but I agree. how is this building awareness if bikers are hogging up all the lanes on Branham? Cars are slowed down with all their honking, the loud music from bikers, scream and yelling and riding on peoples lawn, I think some of the riders are not there for promoting the safety awareness you guys meant this to be … I especially don’t like the fact that some of the music was so loud it woke my entire family. Perhaps these rides can be a bit earlier, not at 11:15 PM when they hit my neighborhood. There were even two people crossing the street and bikers were yelling at them to move. just saying ….

Wouldn’t mind if there wasn’t loud music, cheering and yelling “Bike Party!” so late. Why couldn’t it be done before 10pm? That’s when the residents are expected to be quiet and respectful. Also, it wasn’t ‘some’ bad apples– the music was loud from start to finish.

You guys do realize this is a once a month event right?
The route changes as well so if you seriously have nothing better to do but write a mile complaint about something that will only happens at YOUR house maybe twice a year you may consider joining the crowd or getting a hobby or just suck it up knowing the rest of your community is having a blast!!